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Jessica Schembri

Princeton University

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Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 3 Organism:mouse· 3 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:batch correction / integration· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Organism:human· 2

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Fenna M. KrieneniD· 4 shared Lakme CaceresiD· 4 shared Michael DeBerardineiD· 4 shared Shu DaniD· 4 shared Christopher CardenasiD· 3 shared Ning WangiD· 3 shared Victor Eduardo Nieto CaballeroiD· 3 shared Zizhen YaoiD· 3 shared

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PIANO: Probabilistic Inference Autoencoder Networks for multi-Omics enables robust generative modeling of gene expression and scales single-cell integration to 100 million cells

Ning Wang, Christopher Cardenas, Victor Eduardo Nieto Caballero, David Turner, Hannah Feinberg, Dan Yuan, Nathaniel Scott, Michael DeBerardine, Shu Dan, Lakme Caceres, Jessica Schembri, Zizhen Yao, Changkyu Lee, Jonathan W. Pillow, Fenna M. Krienen

PIANO integrates single-cell data across species and modalities, models gene expression, and scales to 100 million cells for drug perturbation analysis.

bioRxiv · Aug 12, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics

Cross-species consensus atlas of the primate basal ganglia

Nelson Johansen, Yuanyuan Fu, Matthew T. Schmitz, Alma Dubuc, Niklas Kempynck, Morgan E. Wirthlin, Aaron D. Garcia, Madeleine N. Hewitt, Meghan A. Turner, Stephanie C. Seeman, Brian Long, Xiao-Ping Liu, Shu Dan, Michael DeBerardine, Inkar Kapen, , Trygve E. Bakken

The paper creates a cross-species consensus atlas of primate basal ganglia cell types using multiomic data from human, macaque, and marmoset, identifying 61 conserved cell types and a novel hybrid medium spiny neuron type.

bioRxiv · Dec 16, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Spatial patterning of transcriptional and regulatory programs in the primate subcortex

Shu Dan, Meghan A. Turner, Michael DeBerardine, Lakme Caceres, Victor E. Nieto-Caballero, Jessica Schembri, Kirsten M. Levandowski, Christopher Cardenas, Ning Wang, Chang Li, Soumyadeep Basu, Hongyu Zheng, X. Shirley Liu, Thomas Höllt, Jessica Feliciano, , Fenna M. Krienen

The paper presents a spatially resolved transcriptomic and gene regulatory atlas of primate subcortical regions, revealing spatially tuned transcriptional and regulatory programs across cell types.

bioRxiv · Nov 22, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Fast Optimization of Robust Transcriptomics Embeddings using Probabilistic Inference Autoencoder Networks for multi-Omics

Ning Wang, David Turner, Hannah Feinberg, Victor Eduardo Nieto Caballero, Dan Yuan, Nathaniel Scott, Christopher Cardenas, Michael DeBerardine, Shu Dan, Lakme Caceres, Jessica Schembri, Zizhen Yao, Changkyu Lee, Jonathan W. Pillow, Fenna M. Krienen

The paper introduces PIANO, a variational autoencoder for multi-omics integration, showing improved performance on single-species and multi-atlas datasets.

bioRxiv · Nov 16, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience